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27 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Every year at this time we're driving back from my mom's place in PA, and we catch the OSU-Michigan game on the radio, always with the Michigan announcers, because they're just...them. And awesomely so. This year was fun, and a great way to send out Branstetter and Dierdorf.
"JIM. JIM. WE DON'T HAVE A DEFENDER ON HIM OOOHHHHHH NO"
*Incompletion*
"SUCH GOOD COVERAGE ON THAT PLAY JIM"
Branstetter: "TOUCHDOWN, MMMICHIGAN!!!"
Dierdorf: *pounding happily on the desk in the background*
Dan Dierdorf is a national treasure.
I will not be taking any questions at this time.

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Ah yes, that noted avatar of wokeness (checks notes)...Terry McAuliffe
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One time, 30 yrs ago, James Carville taped a sign that said "it's the economy, stupid" to the wall, the entire punditocracy reacted as if he'd just come down from Mt. Sinai with divinely-etched stone tablets, and we've had to listen to his thinly-veiled racist garbage ever since.
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